The Bloody Sonnets

translated by John Minahane

2018

63 pages, hardcover

ISBN 978-80-8119-114-5

The Bloody Sonnets is a cycle of 32 sonnets written between August and September of 1914, during the first months of World War I. Unlike many poets who were enthusiastically pro-war as fighting began, Hviezdoslav chose to reflect on war’s horrors. Sonnets 1-16 describe the catastrophe, while Sonnets 17-32 ponder how it might end and what may come after.

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